Faced with a daunting $77 million cost to build a new elementary school , the Nazareth Area School District has applied for a huge state grant.

The board agreed Tuesday to pursue a $30 million Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program grant. The grants are offered through the governor’s budget office for “regional economic, cultural, civic, recreational and historical improvement projects.”

“RACP projects are state-funded projects that cannot obtain primary funding under other state programs,” the program website says.

The grants, awarded once a year, often go to private commercial developments or for improvements to health care or university facilities. In 2023, for instance, the state awarded $3.6 million to the construction of the “workforce housing” development, The Mill at Eas

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